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142 No. 731. visvakarmiyasilpam | Substance, English paper, 9 x 7 inches: a 4 to. volume. Folia, 63. Lines, 20 on a page. Extent, 1224 s lokas. Character, Nagara. Date, 1872. A. D. Place of deposit, Calcutta, Babu Rajendralala Mitra. Appearance, new. Verse. Incorrect, and corrupt. Visvakarmiya Silpa. A treatise on the manual arts attributed to Visvakarma, the divine architect; but apparently a compilation, as it is written in the Tantric style, having Siva for its narrator. The MS. has been copied for me from an old Codex in the Library of the Raja of Tanjore. There are in it many lacuna and several Tamil words which, I understand from Mr. Burnell, through whose kind aid I have got the copy, have crept in, owing to the circumstance of the original, in the Halakanada character, having short notes interspersed in the Tamil language. This peculiarity characterises almost all the Silpa MSS. in the Tanjore Library. None of the MSS. examined by Mr. Burnell is perfect, or even tolerably correct. Contents: I. Origin of Visvakarma; derivation of the words Takshaka (carpenter) vardhaki (sculptor) &c. II. Height of man in different ages of the world; wood and stone for the formation of images. III. Sacraments for sculptors and carpenters. IV. Halls for the consecration of Siva and other gods. V. Proportions of images of the planets and lingams. VI. Formation of cars. VII. Consecration of cars. VIII. Forms of Brahmi, Mahesvari and other goddesses. IX. Sacrificial or Brahmanical thread. X. Sacrificial threads of gold, silver, and munja fibre; the different sides where images of gods and goddesses are to be placed; qualities of a kind of stone called Hemasila or "golden stone" to be found to the south of the Meru mountain. XI. Images of Indra, Mahesvari, and other gods and goddesses. XII. XIII. Crowns, crests and other head ornaments. XIV. Movable and fixed thrones for images; crests and other ornaments for the head; repairs of temples. XV. Proportions of doors of temples for lingams, XVI. Proportion, of doors for other temples. XVII. Temples for Vighnesa. Most of these chapters appear imperfect and fragmentary, and the work is obviously incomplete. Beginning. kailasasikhare ramye nanaratnasamakule | nanamtagasamakirne nanastaksasamakula ||